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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

51% : Yes on a $10-billion bond for repairs at public schools and community colleges. Proposition 3: Yes to removing bigotry against same-sex couples from the California Constitution. Proposition 4: Yes on a $10-billion climate-change response bond. Proposition 5: Yes to reducing the threshold for passing local bond measures from two-thirds to 55%. Proposition 6: Yes to removing language from the state Constitution permitting forced labor for prisoners. Proposition 32: Yes to giving a modest raise to the state's lowest-paid workers. Proposition 33: No on a rent-control measure that could worsen the state's housing shortage. Proposition 35: No to complicated Medi-Cal policymaking by ballot initiative.
41% : The issues and candidates considered in elections are often not just one-offs -- after all, how often have we voted on same-sex marriage (Proposition 3 this year) and criminal justice (Proposition 36 this year)?

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